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York University doctor of laws

File consists of records pertaining to Trist's reception of the Degree of Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from York University, November 1983.

Yale docs

File consists of records created or compiled by Trist while studying at Yale University. Includes issues of The Newsletter of the Commonwealth Fund, of which Trist was a fellow, the May 1935 issue of the Bulletin of the John Reed Society, the May 1934 issue of The Harkness Hoot, and correspondence from psychologist B.F. Skinner.

Yale : two reports

File consists of two reports Trist wrote on his experience of studying psychology at Yale University.

Writings about Eric Trist

File consists of articles, speeches, introductions, interviews, and other writings about the life and work of Eric Trist.

Writings about Eric Trist

File consists of articles, speeches, introductions, interviews, and other writings about the life and work of Eric Trist.

Writing projects

File consists of correspondence and proposals pertaining to the efforts of Trist and his colleagues to garner funding for a series of writing projects.

Writing and project files

Series consists of publications, presentation scripts, notes and other writings authored or co-authored by Eric Trist, bibiliographies of Trist's and others' works, and audio recordings of Trist and of conversations between Trist and Howard Perlmutter. Many of the publications in this series were used as source material for the book Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology, edited by Trist (Tavistock, 1990). In such cases, this has been noted at the file level.

Work organization at the coal face

File consists of a report, "Work Organization at the Coal Face: A Comparative Study of Mining Systems," created by Eric Trist and H. Murray for the Tavistock Institute, June 1958.

Work improvement and industrial democracy

File consists of a keynote address delivered by Trist to the Conference on Work Improvement and Industrial Democracy of the European Economic Community, Brussels, 1974, as well as a presentation of the same name delivered at the European Communities on Work Organization, Technical Development and Motivation of the Individual, September 1974.

Wider organizational networks and their environments

File consists of a working paper delivered at the Third Social Science of Organizations Seminar, Pittsburgh, June 1964. This paper was used as source material for the book Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology, edited by Trist (Tavistock, 1990).

What the worker really thinks

File consists of a typescript paper with notes. This paper was used as source material for the book Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology, edited by Trist (Tavistock, 1990).

Weiner, Joan

File consists of correspondence and transcripts from a 1985 interview involving Eric Trist, John Dupre, Marv Weisbord, and Dominick Volini in Gainsville, Florida.

Urban North America

File consists of draft and published versions of the article, "Urban North America: The Challenge of the Next 30 Years," Plan, vol. 10, no. 3 (1970). This paper was used as source material for the book Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology, edited by Trist (Tavistock, 1990).

Types of output mix of research organizations and their complementarity

File consists of a paper presented by Trist at the Conference on Policy & Social Research of the International Social Science Council, 13-16 April 1970, and then published in Social Science and Government: Policies and Problems (Tavistock, 1972). This paper was used as source material for the book Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology, edited by Trist (Tavistock, 1990).

Traylor : essays in philosophy

File consists of essays in philosophy written by Trist's first wife, Virginia Traylor, while studying at the University of California.

Toward a postindustrial culture

File consists of a chapter published in Handbook of Work, Organization, and Society, edited by Robert Dubin (Rand MacNally, 1976). This paper was used as source material for the book Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology, edited by Trist (Tavistock, 1990).

The unconscious dynamics of transition

File consists of a paper delivered by Trist as discussant for Harold Bridger's paper, "To Explore the Unconscious Dynamics of Transition as it Affects the Interdependence of Individual, Group and Organizational Aims in Paradigm Change," at the Symposium on Interpreting Unconscious Life in Organizations, International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, October 1987. This paper was used as source material for the book Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology, edited by Trist (Tavistock, 1990).

The socio-technical perspective

File consists of an offprint of a chapter published in Perspectives on Organization Design and Behavior, edited by Van de Ven and Joyce (Wiley, 1981).

The serviceman comes home

File consists of an article by A.T.M. Wilson, published in Pilot Papers: Social Essays and Documents, vol. 1, no. 2 (April 1946). Accompanying note reads: "'The Serviceman Comes Home' is credited to Tommy Wilson. It would undoubtedly have had major input from Eric Trist."

The search conference

File consists of a report, entitled "Search Conference Methodology," of a demonstration event held at the Global Futures Conference, Toronto, July 1980, as well as brief explanatory text on the Search Conference method.

The Rorschach in practice

File consists of a photocopy of Eric Trist's foreword to The Rorschach in Practice, by Theodora Alcock (Tavistock, 1963).

The mess in mining

File consists of letters written by Trist to the editors of The Times and the Manchester Guardian Weekly pertaining to issues with the British mining industry. Also includes copies of papers written on the subject by Trist.

The environment and system-response capability

File consists of manuscript and published versions of an article published in Futures, April 1980. This paper was used as source material for the book Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology, edited by Trist (Tavistock, 1990).

Teaching records

Series consists of lecture notes, syllabi, reading lists, articles, and other materials pertaining to courses taught by Trist over the course of his career as an academic.

Tavistock Institute records

Series consists of records related to the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, of which Eric Trist was a founding member. Includes Tavistock publications and histories, notes and clippings by and about Tavistock members, and correspondence and other material pertaining to volume one of The Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990).

Tavistock history

File consists of notes, drafts and correspondence related to a written history of the Tavistock Institute entitled "The Tavistock Institute: Origin and Early Years."

Tavistock documents

File consists of documents published by the Tavistock Institute for internal purposes.

Tavistock anthology

File consists of notes, correspondence and other material pertaining to volume one of The Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990).

Sutherland, Jock

File consists of clippings and the March 1992 issue of the British Journal of Medical Psychology (vol. 65, part 1), containing the obituary of Jock Sutherland, written by Eric Trist and Douglas Haldane.

Study of the future

File consists of notes, clippings, correspondence and other material pertaining to a course, The Study of the Future, taught at York University by Eric Trist.

Sorbonne seminar photograph

Item is a mounted group photograph of Trist and others with inscription, "Prof. Daniel Mornet's seminar, Sorbonne, Paris, summer 1929."

Some additional reflections on working with Bion in the 'forties

File consists of a paper delivered as part of a Symposium on W.R. Bion organized by the Group Analytic Society in 1985, as well as the subsequent article, published in Group Analysis, vol. 20 (1987). This paper was used as source material for the book Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology, edited by Trist (Tavistock, 1990).

Socio-technical systems, with F.E. Emery

File consists of a reprinted article from Management Sciences, Models and Techniques, Vol. 2 (Pergamon Press, 1960). This paper was used as source material for the book Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology, edited by Trist (Tavistock, 1990).

Socio-technical literature bibliography

File consists of original and updated versions of The Socio-Technical Systems Design (STSD) Paradigm, (Eindhoven University of Technology, 1993), along with supplements.

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